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  • What are some physical items that should be available at libraries for people to borrow?

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  • Libraries are indeed targets of malware and ransomware. In Ontario, at least Toronto, Hamilton, and London public libraries have been ransomwared. The idea is nice, but I think the risk would be too high for libraries with increasingly slashed budgets. Even with an air-gapped system doing the formatting, I can't imagine library IT devoting the time to do this.

  • I’m fully vaccinated against measles, but I still became Ottawa’s fifth confirmed case this year

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  • From the article:

    The answer to how I became sick may lie in what’s called secondary vaccine failure, which happens when a vaccinated person’s immunity decreases over time until they are no longer protected. This can take place when an immune system doesn’t receive the “boost” it needs from encountering the virus.

    “There is evidence to suggest that in the absence of these boosts, the immune response that is induced by the vaccine isn’t lasting as long,” said Janna Shapiro, a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Vaccine Preventable Diseases in Toronto. That means even those who were fully vaccinated as kids can lose their immunity.

    This was me. I was at the doctor and he was having me get some bloodwork done. I asked him to check my measles immunity status, too, because I'd previously seen online of the possibility mentinoed above. My parents did have me immunized when I was a child, but I thought why not check? The results: I had no immunity.

    It was free (to me, the patient) to get the shots. My doctor had to order them in. It's two shots a month apart, and then another blood draw another month later to check. I'll be honest, it was the second most painful vaccination I've ever had (the first was shingles), but totally worth it. Ask your doctor to check the next time you're getting bloodwork done.

  • Canada Post workers on nationwide strike after government demands reforms

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  • I'm by no means against reduction or modification of service to match the reality of less mail being sent and delivered. Reduction of service and tax funding are not mutually exclusive.

    But a legal mandate to serve all Canadians and a mandate for "solvency" based solely on postage are mutually exclusive in a country as geographically large as Canada with all our small, rural and remote (i.e. Unprofitable) communities.

  • Canada Post workers on nationwide strike after government demands reforms

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  • Why should Canada Post be "solvent"? It's mandated to serve every Canadian address. Have you considered what that means? It means it has to send mail to the furthest reaches of Grise Fiord (look for it on Google Maps). A business would never deliver there, and they don't because it's not profitable. A non-discriminatory mail service is not a profit business, it's a public service of the government. Firehalls ans library systems have budgets, but no one expects them to be solvent because they're services supported by public funds (taxes), not businesses.

  • ‘I’m a modern-day luddite’: Meet the students who don’t use laptops

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  • All assignments are submitted electronically now, and if he's in philosophy, he will also have to follow formatting requirements like font, font size, margins, and spacing. Practically, he's doing as much as he is allowed off-computer.

  • Republican says Charlie Kirk would have been Jesus' "13th disciple"

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  • If they had, they'd know there was a 13th disciple named Matthias. I'm not even kidding, it's in the Book of Acts. He was selected to replace Judas, and is described as having been with them since the beginning.

  • Jimmy Kimmel Pulled “Indefinitely” By ABC After Nexstar Drops Late Nighter From Affiliates Over Charlie Kirk Comments

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  • You can't win by playing nice is there are no rules for the other side. There is no democracy left in America, and there will be no fair election in 2028 whether Trump is still alive or not.

    Anyway, Tyler Robinson showed there is another way. Am I saying Robinson specifically is a good guy? No. But realistically, evil leaders and administrations have been stopped by good guys fighting back with violence, and then stopping when the goal has been achieved and returning to peace. The difference between good and bad isn't non-violence and violence, but restrained violence to achieve the goal of peace and violence as the goal itself.

  • Jimmy Kimmel Pulled “Indefinitely” By ABC After Nexstar Drops Late Nighter From Affiliates Over Charlie Kirk Comments

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  • Well, I'm no American, but US free speech means freedom from consequences from the government, doesn't it? This was directed by the FCC, which is the government.

    But I'm no American, what do I know?

    (It's embarrassing that non-Americans know the rights of Americans better than Americans. As designed by the powers that be.)

  • Canadians Are Cooling to Carney

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  • "Cut. Spend."? I'm no financial analyst, but you have to cut in one area in order to spend in another. Maybe we disagree on what is cut and what gets spent on and those choices could be matters of argument and debate, but trying to call out the fact of it itself like some gotcha is either bad faith or stupid.

  • Too soon?

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  • Truly, without sarcasm, I invite you to read the gospels and actually get to now about Jesus. The shortest is Mark and can be read through in one evening.

  • Canadians were promised a national flood insurance program 6 years ago. Will Carney actually deliver?

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  • I previously worked at an insurance company some years ago. Back then the company was complaining that flood maps were something like decades out of date, and that was irresponsible to let developers build and sell homes to unsuspecting homeowners who had no reason, or even a way, to know they were in a flood plain.

    I suspect nothing has changed in the intervening years.

  • Lady regrets voting for Trump after her terminally ill, undocumented father is detained.

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  • People believe themselves to be part of the in-circle as "one of the good ones". My father is a Trump-supporting anti-immigrant immigrant. But when he says "immigrant", he really means Hispanics and blacks, not Asians like himself.

    I even know an Afghan guy who loves Trump. He grew up under the Mujahideen and then the Taliban, so he hates Islam. When Trump says Muslim countries are bad, this guy 100% agrees. He thinks he and Trump are on the same side, because he's no longer Muslim. Trump, or course, would have him arrested and deported on sight for being brown.

  • Ontario baby dies after being born prematurely with measles, other complications | Globalnews.ca

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  • The baby absolutely didn't deserve to die like that. The parents, on the other hand, are experiencing the natural consequences of their own choices, literally what their actions brought on and deserved. Nobody has to say, "I told you so", but neither do they deserve anybody's sympathy.

    This is no different than parents refusing to get a car seat for their child because they think seatbelts take away freedom, getting in a car accident, and the child dying in the accident. The child's preventable death is the parent's fault. They created the environment that was unsafe for the child because they were arrogant enough to believe they knew better than decades of evidence. In this car seat scenario, parents might even be charged with endangerment or negligence.

    Or the grandmother who didn't believe her granddaughter's coconut allergy was real, because she knew better than the baby's doctors, and put coconut oil in the poor baby's hair and killed her. That grandma doesn't deserve sympathy for what she did.

  • Is your favourite show CanCon enough? Here's why the definition of Canadian content may get a reboot

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  • The benefit is mostly in "Oh, this (show/movie I like) is Canadian? What else is Canadian?"

    Let's take Netflix for a negative example. People know it's reputation for cancelling shows after the third season, so viewers choose not to get invested in Netflix shows, so they do poorly, and then Netflix cancels them. It's a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy at this point.

    But what if the reputation around the world was "CBC (or Canada in general) produces great shows"? Then more people will look for them and it grows the international audience. It genuinely annoys me when people call great, original Canadian shows, like North of North, a Netflix show. No, it's quality CBC, Canadian, Inuit content. But if people think North of North is Netflix, how many are expecting it to get cancelled after the third season, and therefore not bothering to get interested in it?

    Also, it's important to counter right-wing populism everywhere. Poilievre and the Conservatives (in its current incarnation) needs to be shut down and not taken seriously in Canada and internationally. He needs to be seen as a joke by foreign nationals, and for people to see right wing populists in their own countries as jokes. The more he calls CBC state media, the more everyone needs to say WTF are you on about, you dingus?

  • Is your favourite show CanCon enough? Here's why the definition of Canadian content may get a reboot

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  • Canada, CBC in particular, produces quality content. I feel that these shows and Gem need to be better promoted in Canada, and outside Canada they need to be better promoted as Canadian.

    One thing that needs to happen is the Conservative traitors to stop lying about and maligning the CBC. They directly undermine our productions and industry when they spew false and hateful garbage to frenzy up their base. Canada is already a relatively small market, and half the country is against the CBC because they believe the ridiculous lies that it's a communist state media outlet. I wish there were consequences for slander and libel for defamation from politicians.

  • Here Lies Hudson’s Bay Company, Murdered by Private Equity

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  • Canadian Tire is buying the intellectual property (essentially, the brand) for an absolute steal at $30m. https://globalnews.ca/news/11210165/hudsons-bay-court-canadian-tire-deal-approval/

    CT has the money and manufacturing, and distribution to continue to make Hudson's Bay products. I would expect to see things like blankets, socks, and outdoor wear begin to appear at Marks, housewares also in CT stores. Heck, the CT corporation is so big they could just open Bay and Zellers stores if they wanted (with adjusted business plans, of course).

  • Liberals introduce bill proposing sweeping border security powers

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  • Calgary lawyers who had Manitoba judge followed fight disbarment

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  • They didn't learn their lesson, evidenced by attempting to destroy evidence after the fact, and they're only sorry that they're facing consequences, evidenced by their own we've had enough consequences-type statements.

    Surely if not disbarred, they would brag about not being charged and advertise themselves as a lawyers for the anti-government types.

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  • I tried out a bunch, including Babbel, Busuu, Language Transfer, Mango, and Memrise. I didn't like them for one reason or another. I finally landed on Lingodeer. It's similar to Duolingo, but it is a paid app. (You can try level 1 of any language for free.)

    The regular subscription price is definitely not worth it. It's okay (not great, but not awful) when they do their sales. But I felt okay about paying human workers.

    This kind of learning is a great start, but will only get you so far. If your local library has access to Kanopy, look for the Great Courses series on Spanish. I thought that was an excellent series after a little bit of Duolingo.